They were among 30 inductees from F1, motorcycle GPs, World Superbikes, karting, motocross, off-road, speedway and drag racing. Among the other inductees were the late Peter Brock and former F1 champion Alan Jones.

Chairman of the Australian Motor Sport Hall of Fame Committee, Garry Connelly says the inductees feature 29 Individual and Team World Championships – including the world’s first motorsport World Champion, Lionel Van Praag, who won the World Speedway Championship in 1936.

“For a country with Australia’s population to achieve what it has on the global motor sport stage is truly impressive,” he said. “The achievements by Australians in motor sport in a competition sense, an engineering sense and an administrative sense is a wonderful story that as a nation, should be celebrated.”

The Australian Motor Sport Hall of Fame is an initiative from the Confederation of Australian Motor Sport (CAMS) involving Motorcycling Australia, the Australian National Drag Racing Association, Karting Australia and Speedway Australia. It is the first time that the Governing Bodies of every major discipline of motor sport in Australia has come together to produce such a function.